Phishy is not a company and not a funded startup. It was built by one person — my name is Moti, I am an independent app developer from Israel, and I sign this page with my own name because you deserve to know who you are pasting a suspicious message to.
These messages reach everyone. "Unpaid toll on your account." "Your parcel is waiting for a customs fee." "Unusual activity detected on your account." Most of us delete them. Our parents often do not. They pay quickly to avoid trouble, and then feel too embarrassed to mention it.
The real problem is that there is no good way to check. On a phone you cannot hover over a link. The only way to "see" where it leads is to tap it — which means visiting the malicious page. That is exactly the gap Phishy closes: paste the message, get an answer, and your phone never touches the link.
The message itself is never stored. Not in a database, not in a log, not by me. What is counted, fully anonymously: the date, the verdict, a label for the organisation the message impersonated, the interface language and the visitor’s country. Not stored: the message text, the link inside it, IP address, name, phone number or any other identifier. No row in that data can be traced back to a person — not even by me.
That anonymous count is what feeds the Scam Index — a live picture of who scammers impersonate most, open to everyone.
Because a tool that asks for money the moment somebody frightened looks at a suspicious message will not do its job. No ads in the checker, no data sales, no signup. The app is free too. I build it in my own time, and if it grows I will look for funding that does not come at the expense of the people using it.
I am not a security company and not a government body. Phishy is a first-aid layer, not a substitute for caution and not a guarantee. If you have been hit, report it to your national cybercrime line and block the card directly with your card issuer, using the number printed on the back of the card. In Israel: dial 119, free, 24/7.
I am available for comment, technical background or a data breakdown for a story, in English or Hebrew. Topics I can speak to concretely:
The Scam Index is free to cite under CC BY 4.0 with credit and a link. For a custom breakdown (by month or scam type), just write to me.
📧 support@phishyapp.com — I answer every email.